• https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11071754: It’s been a long since I deleted all my dotfiles on GitHub. Who cares? I have my own setup backed up on external HD and private repos if I need to deploy them on new machines. It has been working fine so far. Also, I must say I’m now barely maintaining a few CLI tools: Zsh, Neovim, Tmux, and Neomutt. Anyway, I’ve been using this approach for a while ten years ago and it’s pretty simple and efficient.

• Lisp in Vim with Slimv or Vlime on HN. This provides a reasoned account of why a true REPL is better than any send-to-terminal plugin, like vim-slime. I always enjoy reading Susam Pal’s articles. It seems I didn’t bookmarked the right HN threads, but there are plenty other posts around this very nice post of him. See also this thread.

• Ghostty 1.0 on HN. Yet another interesting thread where I learned a lot about pseudo terminal and technical details like missing damage tracking or the use of rendering threads as QoS background. In a similar vein, I highly recommend Gregory Anders’s discussion on the State of the Terminal to learn more about key encoding and capabilities as reported by infocmp. At present, I’m happy with Apple Terminal, especially since I mostly use B&W color scheme everywhere, ¹ and Tmux takes care of the rest for me. I may change my mind later.

• I recently learned about tex2page which looks like an interesting alternative to Hevea.

• Why your website should be under 14kB in size. I don’t really care how long it takes to load each pahe of this website as long as it is not too much. I really care about the fact that pages don’t look too much bloated and that they are readable on almost any browsers. I cry whenever I came across websites where we can barely read anything because of bad design or unreadable text with crazy background.

• I’m Switching to Python and Actually Liking It: If you’re into uv, this post might be of interest. I learned about ty by reading this post. More than uv, the author mentions many tools and techniques that should be considered good practises nowadays.

I strongly believe the maximum quality of work is reached using the human+LLM equation. I believe that humans and LLMs together are more productive than just humans, but this requires a big “if”, that is, if such humans have extensive communication capabilities and LLMs experiences: the ability to communicate efficiently is a key factor in using LLMs. — Coding with LLMs in the summer of 2025